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THE subject of Sir William Bragg's Friday evening discourse at the Royal Institution on March 18 last is one which is of deep interest from a remarkable variety of points of view, among them that of the crystallographer, the physicist, the geologist, the climber, the ski-runner, the plumber, the food purveyor and distributor, and even the very housewife herself. Moreover, it is one which has proved of unusual difficulty, although it concerns natural phenomena of the most familiar kind and one of the most abundant substances in Nature. Indeed, we never seem to get a thorough and complete understanding concerning the extraordinary nature and unusual properties of ice, although they have been investigated and discussed for ages. Only quite recently, an Association for the Study of Snow and Ice has been formed in Great Britain, now numbering about eighty members, the nucleus being the British members of the International Commission of Ice and Snow, which deals with the survey of glaciers and the prevention of catastrophes due to them. One of the latest discussions at the London meeting of the Association concerned "The Structure of Flow of Glacier Ice".
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TUTTON, A. Ice. Nature 142, 192–195 (1938). https://doi.org/10.1038/142192a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/142192a0